Union Suggests Ballot On Ford Wage Proposal
The CIO United Auto Workers proposed a nationwide ballot for 140,000 Ford workers to choose between a guaranteed annual wage or Ford stock purchase plans. Independent Honest Ballot Assn. would oversee within two weeks. If the union wins, a new contract would follow. if not, the company would fund the guaranteed wage with 12 cents per hour per worker.
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Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers
Ford Motor Co
Ford
Henry Ford I
Rank and
New York
Honest Ballot Assn
UAW
Walter Reuther
War Dead Honored Today Across the Nation
The nation marks solemn services and parades for fallen soldiers with Arlington National Cemetery ceremonies led by Vice President Nixon. Governors and officials place wreaths at memorials from New Hampshire to coastal sites, with floral tributes at sea and the Fleet of Flowers procession.
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Associated Press
Arlington National Cemetery
Richard Nixon
Eisenhower
Rindge
N.H
Lane Dwinell
Cathedral of Pines
America
Europe
Far East
Wildwood
N.J
Atlantic Ocean
de- Poe Bay
Ore
Pacific
Burlington Industries unveil broad four phase education aid program
The Burlington Industries Foundation announced a four phase program to aid higher education with an initial $100,000 for 1955-56. The plan includes matched alumni gifts, tuition matching, 16 $1,000 scholarships, and matching scholarships across 16 colleges plus expansion potential.
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Greensboro
N. C
Burlington Industries Foundation
Spencer Love
Burlington Industries
Love
James Lee Love Educational Loan Fund
James Lee Love Fund
Burlin Industries
Tito and Khrushchev Press Conference on Brioni Declares Principles
Tito and Soviet leaders met on Brioni to finalize a joint declaration guiding Moscow Yugoslav relations. The document reportedly endorses active coexistence, sovereignty for all nations, UN Charter rights, noninterference, peaceful dispute resolution, and mutual cooperation.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Tito
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Nikolai Bulganin
Adriatic
Brioni
Karlovac
Ljubljana
Zagreb
Slovenia
Croatia
Moscow
Stalin
Cominform
Borba
Yugoslav Communist Party
U.N
Diplomats and Church Leaders Awarded Honorary Degrees at HPC
High Point College conferred honorary degrees during graduation exercises. George V. Allen received Doctor of Civil Law for his career in diplomacy and foreign service. The Rev. C. P. Morris and the Rev. C. P. Bowles were named Doctors of Divinity for their leadership in Christian education and church work.
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North Carolina
High Point College
George V. Allen
U. S
C. P. Morris
Eastern North Carolina
Svyuown
UIC Chaauuid
Dennis H. Cooke
George Venable Allen
Jamadia
Iran
Yugoslavia
India
Duke
Harvard
Higher Education
Clarence Poe Morris
Westminister Theological Seminary
Duke University
Charles Phillip Bowles
Guilford College
Phi Beta Kappa
Eastern
Compton
Robert Todd Lapsley
Bristol
Tenn
Daniel Patrick MceGeachy
Clearwater
Fla
Cecil Waltham Gilchrist
Charlotte
Francis Cecil Thames
Indian Head
William Iain Girdwood Wilson
Baltimore
Queens College
Nies
Edward G. Lilly
First Presbyterian Church
Charleston
D.C
Lilly
Lenoir Rhyne College
Hickory
George R. Whittecar
St. James Lutheran Church
Concord
Whittecar
God
Lodge Pays Tribute To Hammarskjold
United Nations, N Y Henry Cabot Lodge Jr chief U S delegate paid tribute to U N Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold as he commented on the impending release of four imprisoned U S sailors by Red China and related issues at the U N security council debate
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United. Nations
N. Y
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
U. S
U. N
Dag Hammarskjold
U. S. Lairmen
China
Memorial Day weekend traffic toll tracks predicted rise
The National Safety Council warned the holiday traffic toll would climb as 360 deaths were forecast for 78 hours from Friday 6 p.m. to midnight tonight. By 9 a.m. EST, 264 died in traffic, with 90 drownings and 39 in other accidents for a 393 total.
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National Safety Council
Memorial Day Weekend Traffic Toll Tops 20 in State
North Carolina marked a deadly holiday as highway crashes killed at least 20 people, with 12 deaths reported by the State Highway Patrol. Victims included three from a two car wreck near Smithfield and teens in Gastonia, among others, as authorities noted fierce weekend tolls.
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North Carolina
State Highway Patrol
Smithfield
Charles Robert Layton
Atlanta
Frances
James Gilbert Woodall
Raleigh
Gastonia
Ronald E. Jackson
Boyd Lackey
Ladd E. Miller
Greensboro
U.S
Ralph E. Hevner
Hyattesville
Alice D. Pierce
Washington, D.C
Dennis Hill
Clinton
Malcolm W. Rowe
Rt. 1
Burgaw
Pender County
Zeta Edwards Roundtree
New Bern
Four U S Airmen Declared Deported by Peiping
Peiping radio announced a military tribunal sentenced Capt. Harold Fischer Jr Swea City Iowa 1st Lt Lyle W Cameron Lincoln Neb Lt Col Edwin L Heller Wynnewood Pa and 1st Lt Roland W Parks Omaha Neb to immediate deportation for flying their planes beyond Korea into Manchuria The United States questioned the claim noting the men were downed over North Korea and urged the release of 11 other fliers held on espionage charges The broadcast cited their admissions and repentance and hinted at release possibly in Hong Kong
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Tokyo
U. S
Red China
Peiping Radio
Harold Fischer Jr
Swea City
Iowa
Lyle W. Cameron
Lincoln
Neb
Edwin L. Heller
Wynnewood
Roland W. Parks
Omaha
Peiping
Korea
Manchuria
Hong Kong
Washington
U. S. State Department
V. K. Krishna Menon
New Delhi
North Korea
China
Supreme Peoples Court of China
Peoples But of
Fischer
Auiho Reservoir
Heller
Yalu River
Cameron
Air Force
REDS
Harold Fischer
Release of Airmen Lifts Wife on Memorial Day
Mrs. Judith Rae Heller, wife of Lt. Col. Edwin L. Heller, U.S. Air Force, learned her husband would be freed from a Chinese prison camp during a Memorial Day visit to Ocean City New Jersey. The Wynnewood Pennsylvania family, including 7 year old Edwin Jr. and 6 year old Linda, celebrated while thinking of other prisoners and their families awaiting release.
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Ocean City
N.J
Judith Rae Heller
Edwin L. Heller
U.S. Air Force
Col. Heller
North Carolina colleges grant hundreds of degrees today
Thousands of North Carolina collegians graduate as Wake Forest Davidson Queens Lenoir Rhyne confer degrees and ROTC commissions. Notable speakers include Gilbert T. Stephenson and Dr. Wilson Martindale Compton. Honorary degrees awarded to several distinguished figures amid commencement ceremonies across state institutions.
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North Carolina
Associated Press
North Carolina College
Wake Forest College
Gilbert T. Stephenson
Pendleton
College Board of Trustees
Harold W. Tribble
Davidson College
Wilson Martindale Compton
Council For Financial Aid To Education, Inc
New York
Cit. ‘“Education
Dr. Compton
Britain Faces Grave Rail Strike as Eden Fails to Break Will
Britain confronts its gravest industrial crisis since 1926 as 67,000 railway workers refuse Eden’s back-to-work appeal. Albert Hallworth of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen vows to hold out for at least three months, insisting the country will break before the union. Eden says the government will use extra powers if needed.
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London
Britain
Eden
Albert Hallworth
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
Hallworth
Execuiive
Best News Mother Ever Had About Return of Capt. Fischer
SWEA CITY IOWA. The mother of Capt. Harold Fischer Jr. said word that her son, a 28 year old double jet ace shot down near the North Korean border on April 7 1952, will be freed by Chinese Communists is the best news ever. The Fischers had hoped for a Chinese invitation to visit this year, but the visit did not happen. The father paced the floor with relief and the pilot’s young son Harold Fischer II woke to hear Daddy’s coming home then slept again.
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Swea City
Iowa
Harold Fischer Jr
Fischer
Fischers
British Welcome Chinese Move
The British Foreign Office welcomed China’s reported plan to release four imprisoned American airmen as a first step toward improving international relations. Britain, which recognizes Peiping diplomatically, has raised the issue through its charge d affaires in Peiping.
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London
Red China
Britain
Peiping
Vukovich Dies in Indianapolis Grand Prix Pileup
Bill Vukovich perished in a five car crash during the Memorial Day race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The 1953 and 1954 500 winner led most of the early laps before colliding on the backstretch after Ed Elisian’s car hit the wall. Ike Welch confirmed the Fresno champion’s death. Ed Elisian and Al Keller survived.
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Indianapolis
Bill Vukovich
Ike Welch
AAA
Fresno
Calif
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Vukovich
Jack McGrath
McGrath
Ed Elisian
Elisian
al Keller
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